Pause on refugees in Libyan detention centres coming to Canada
The coronavirus pandemic has paused the resettlement of refugees bound for Canada. Caught up in the delay are 200 refugees who’ve lived in migrant centres in Libya.
The coronavirus pandemic has paused the resettlement of refugees bound for Canada. Caught up in the delay are 200 refugees who’ve lived in migrant centres in Libya.
Seventeen years ago, Michel Chikwanine stood on a pile of skeletons. His favourite Superman shirt, once white, was stained red. Rebels in his African nation had just forced him to shoot and kill his best friend. He was five years old.
As nine-year-old Kimmie Weeks and his mother huddled desperately on a cold concrete floor, he prayed they would survive. While trapped in one of Africa’s bloodiest civil wars, Weeks learned that survival was all he could hope for.